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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:29:12 +0100
From:      Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        Terry Sposato <terry@comtron.com.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <47DCDA58.6080008@boosten.org>
In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCEEHNCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCEEHNCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Are you asking if FreeBSD can be made to run the ESX software so that
> a FreeBSD server can virtualize multiple systems, or are you asking
> if an ESX server can create a virtual machine that FreeBSD can run in?
> 
> If your using the commercial ESX product I would assume you would be
> using it on it's own "bare metal" product incarnation which I think
> uses a hacked-up version of Linux (without a compiler or any other
> normal Linux tools).  In that case I do not see why you would have
> a problem running multiple FreeBSD virtual servers on the ESX
> server.
> 

That's not what OP is asking. He wants to run FreeBSD as VM in ESX.
There's currently no support from VMWare for FreeBSD, but it runs anyway.

Peter

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